[351. {354.}[1] Sakoṭakakoraṇḍadāyaka[2]]
Having seen the path[3] stepped upon
by[4] Sikhi [Buddha], World’s Kinsman,
placing deer-hide on one shoulder,
I worshipped that superb[5] footprint. (1) [3153]
Seeing a koraṇḍa in bloom,
foot-drinker growing in the earth,[6]
taking a sprig with [flowers,] I
worshipped[7] the wheel on [that] footprint.[8] (2) [3154]
In the thirty-one aeons since
I did that [good] karma back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of footprint-pūjā. (3) [3155]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (4) [3156]
Thus indeed Venerable Sakoṭakakoraṇḍadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Sakoṭakakoraṇḍadāyaka Thera is finished.
Apadāna numbers provided in {fancy brackets} correspond to the BJTS edition, which contains more individual poems than does the PTS edition dictating the main numbering of this translation. ↩︎
“Koraṇḍa-Sprig Donor.” Koraṇḍa is Sinh. kaṭukoraṇḍu, Barberia prionitis (Acanth.), cf. koraṇḍaka, kuraṇḍaka, a shrub and its flower, J. v.473 (RD) ↩︎
or foot, or footprint (the translation of the same word preferred in the fourth foot of the verse) ↩︎
lit., “of,” genitive case ↩︎
reading padaseṭṭhaṃ (lit., “best footprint”) with BJTS (and PTS alt.) for PTS padaseyyaŋ, though it amounts to the same thing. ↩︎
the foot consists of two different words for” tree”: dharaṇī-rūha (“growing in the earth”) and pādapa (“drinking from the feet [or roots]”). Though awkward in English, I translate literally here rather than give the non-descriptive “tree, which was a tree”. ↩︎
lit., “did pūjā to” ↩︎
the wheel is one of the auspicious marks found on the footprint of the Buddha ↩︎